The aim of this paper is to discuss the composition of Johanna Sinisalo’s novel The Core of the Sun by demonstrating how the author used excerpts of academic text to create the literary world of the novel. As the theoretical foundation, I will use Lubomír Doležel’s research introducing the theory of possible worlds in literary creation. The realia, possibilia, and the transworld identity of the fictional world of Sinisalo’s novel is analyzed on the basis of excerpts from dictionary entries and scientific articles used as world-building elements.

German academic language contains far more phrasemes than it used to be assumed. Apart from specialist expressions, there are many collocations, idioms and pragmatic phrasemes, which perform a number of textual functions. Scientific discourse has received an increased interest lately, however, no study of body-part phrasemes in academic language has been conducted. This paper presents an analysis of occurrence of phrasemes with the component “eye” in a specially created corpus of German academic texts in such branches as: linguistics, literary studies, foreign language teaching, and medicine. The paper approaches the following questions: Are such phrasemes used in scientifi c discourse and, if so, in which branches of science? What are the purposes of their use? Which phrasemes are favoured in all the analysed branches?